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Mark D'Agostino
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Mark D'Agostino is the Ward 3 representative on the Brockton Public Schools school board in Massachusetts. First elected in 2015, D'Agostino won a new term in the by-district general election on November 7, 2017.
Before he was elected to the board, D'Agostino unsuccessfully ran for a seat. He placed second to Allisha J. Clark on November 5, 2013.
Biography
D'Agostino resides in Brockton, Massachusetts. D'Agostino earned a bachelor's degree from Framingham State University. He joined his father's insurance business in 1996 as a personal insurance customer service representative and became president of R. F. D'Agostino Insurance Agency Inc. in 2009.[1] D'Agostino and his wife, Meredith, have one child.[2]
Elections
2017
- See also: Brockton Public Schools elections (2017)
Seven seats on the Brockton Public Schools School Committee in Massachusetts were up for general election on November 7, 2017. All eight seats on the school committee were up for election. The eighth seat was held by the mayor of Brockton, but was not covered by Ballotpedia as the city fell outside of municipal elections coverage.[3]
In his bid for re-election to the Ward 3 seat, incumbent Mark D'Agostino defeated Stephen Kelley. Ward 1 incumbent Thomas J. Minichiello Jr., Ward 2 incumbent Lisa Plant, and Ward 4 incumbent Brett Gormley ran unopposed and won re-election to their seats. In Ward 5, incumbent Judy A. Sullivan defeated Nancy Demacedo. The Ward 6 race included incumbent Joyce Asack and challenger Felicia Chalmers, and Asack won the seat. Ward 7 incumbent Timothy Sullivan defeated former school committee member Raymond Henningson Jr. for another term on the board.[4][5] Steven Carl Abrams and Felicia Pandele initially filed to run for the Ward 1 and 2 seats, respectively, but they withdrew from the race.[6]
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 3 General Election, 2-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Mark D'Agostino Incumbent |
62.98% | 1,196 |
| Stephen Kelley | 37.02% | 703 |
| Total Votes | 1,899 | |
| Source: Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton," November 20, 2017 | ||
Funding
The City of Brockton Elections Office does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports. If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
2015
- See also: Brockton Public Schools elections (2015)
All seven seats on the Brockton School Committee were up for election on November 3, 2015. A primary election was held for seats in Wards 3 and 4 on September 22, 2015.[7]
Four of the seven seats did not have challengers. Ward 1 incumbent Thomas J. Minichiello Jr. and Ward 5 incumbent Judy A. Sullivan won without opposition. Andrew Robinson and Ossie Jordan did not file for re-election in Wards 2 and 6, respectively. Lisa Plant and Joyce Asack were the sole candidates to file for their seats, thereby winning without opposition.[8]
Wards 3 and 4 had three candidates each prior to the primary. Neither incumbent filed for re-election. In Ward 3, Mark D'Agostino defeated Blessing Rogers for the seat vacated by Allisha Clark-Wilson. In the Ward 4 race, Brett Gormley defeated Nilton Monteiro for the seat held by Patricia Joyce. Elliot Miller and Tony Branch were defeated in primaries for Wards 3 and 4, respectively.[8]
The Ward 7 race saw the only incumbent facing a challenger. Board member Raymond Henningson Jr. lost his re-election bid against Timothy Sullivan.[8]
Results
| Brockton School Committee, Ward 3, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Mark D'Agostino |
64.5% | 1,461 |
| Blessing Rogers | 35.4% | 801 |
| Write-in votes | 0.09% | 2 |
| Total Votes | 2,264 | |
| Source: City of Brockton, "Election Summary Report," accessed November 3, 2015 | ||
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 3 Primary Election, 2-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Mark D'Agostino |
46.8% | 655 | |
| Nonpartisan | Blessing Rogers |
26.9% | 377 | |
| Nonpartisan | Elliot Miller | 26.3% | 369 | |
| Total Votes | 1,401 | |||
| Source: The Enterprise, "Polls close, counting under way in Brockton's preliminary election," September 22, 2015 | ||||
Funding
The Brockton Elections Commission does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports. If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify any official endorsements for D'Agostino in the election.
2013
- See also: Brockton Public Schools elections (2013)
D'Agostino lost to fellow newcomer Allisha J. Clark in his attempt to win the Ward 3 seat in the general election on November 5, 2013.
Results
| Brockton Public Schools, Ward 3 General Election, 2-year term, 2013 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Allisha Jean Clark |
50.6% | 951 | |
| Nonpartisan | Mark D'Agostino | 49% | 922 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.4% | 8 | |
| Total Votes | 1,881 | |||
| Source: Brockton, Massachusetts, "Mayor - City Election - November 5, 2013," accessed December 18, 2013 | ||||
Funding
D'Agostino began the race with an existing debt of $525.00. He reported $1,495.00 in contributions and $857.30 in expenditures to the Brockton Elections Commission, which left his campaign with $112.70 on hand in the election.[9]
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify any official endorsements for D'Agostino in the election.
Campaign themes
2015
D'Agostino's website listed the following themes for the 2015 campaign:
| “ | Mark D'Agostino is a local business owner and resident of the City of Brockton who cares about the future of the Brockton School system. If elected as Ward 3 School Committee representative, he will work hard to ensure that Brockton maintains our excellent schools and find common sense solutions to the challenges that face us. Mark believes in order to be successful we need to make sure all stakeholders are heard; that means supporting strong communication channels with parents, educators, administrators, other elected officials and students. To do this Mark will ensure he is available and accessible to all those parties. Mark is excited for the opportunity to help continue and build on the initiatives that will strengthen our schools to make them the best they can be.[10] | ” |
| —Mark D'Agostino (2015)[2] | ||
Recent news
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See also
- Brockton Public Schools, Massachusetts
- Brockton Public Schools elections (2017)
- Brockton Public Schools elections (2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
- Brockton Public Schools elections (2013)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ R. F. D'Agostino Insurance Agency Inc., "Our Team," accessed September 19, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The D'Agostino Committee, "Home," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ City of Brockton, "2017 Political Calendar," accessed July 31, 2017
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Cynthia Hogan, City of Brockton" August 2, 2017
- ↑ The Enterprise, "Challengers couldn’t shake Brockton School Committee incumbents," November 7, 2017
- ↑ City of Brockton, "2017 Sample November Ballot," accessed November 8, 2017
- ↑ Brockton Public Schools, "2014-2015 Brockton School Committee," accessed January 26, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Lauren Dixon, "Email correspondence with Brockton Election Department's Executive Director John McGarry," August 21, 2015
- ↑ Brockton, Massachusetts, "Current 2013 Candidate Financials," accessed December 23, 2013
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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| Election date: | Primary election: September 22, 2015 General election: November 3, 2015 |
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